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GregD42
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 Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject: Can't import Mac Word Documents into 2.2.2 Patch 6 |
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I Have 4 Mac Word documents I've received from someone else. NeoOffice 2.2.2 Patch 6 insists on importing them as ASCII text (i.e. complete crap).
How do I get it to import them as Word documents?
Here's a hex dump of the first 256 bytes of one of them:
0000: 00 05 16 07 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 09 00 00 ................
0020: 00 3E 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 48 00 00 .>...........H..
0030: 00 13 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 5B 00 00 01 43 57 38 .........[...CW8
0040: 42 4E 4D 53 57 44 00 00 44 69 61 67 6E 6F 73 74 BNMSWD..Diagnost
0050: 69 63 20 51 75 69 7A 2E 64 6F 63 00 00 01 00 00 ic Quiz.doc.....
0060: 00 01 11 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 32 00 00 00 00 00 ..........2.....
0070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
TIA,
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Lorinda
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Do you know what version of Word for Mac was used to create the files (or what version they were saved as)? I know that Neo can't read Word for Mac 5.1 files, althought the "converted" content looks different that what you've provided. I can usually salvage my text (but no formatting) from a MSW for Mac 5.1 document.
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pluby
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You may also want to try selecting the NeoOffice :: Open Document menu and, in the native file dialog that appears, selecting a specific Microsoft Word version as the file type. Does this work with any of the listed Word versions?
Edit: FYI. I moved this topic to the NeoOffice Support forum where it might get noticed by more volunteers.
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GregD42
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Tried all the .doc formats, none worked.
The problem is with the resource fork. When I download the file using Thunderbird, it saves it with a data fork and a resource fork, and NeoOffice (and Open Office) choke on it.
If I use webmail to see the message, the file is listed as two separate files (different mime types, same names). Downloading teh data fork only gets me a file that NeoOffice can read.
So the bug is that it chokes on Word files with a data fork. |
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pluby
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| GregD42 wrote: | The problem is with the resource fork. When I download the file using Thunderbird, it saves it with a data fork and a resource fork, and NeoOffice (and Open Office) choke on it.
If I use webmail to see the message, the file is listed as two separate files (different mime types, same names). Downloading teh data fork only gets me a file that NeoOffice can read.
So the bug is that it chokes on Word files with a data fork. |
Ah. There's the problem. Neither NeoOffice nor OpenOffice.org expect Word documents to have a resource fork. AFAIK, recent Word document formats shouldn't have a resource fork so whichever program is creating the resource fork appears to be messing up the Word file in the process.
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GregD42
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| pluby wrote: | | GregD42 wrote: | The problem is with the resource fork. When I download the file using Thunderbird, it saves it with a data fork and a resource fork, and NeoOffice (and Open Office) choke on it.
If I use webmail to see the message, the file is listed as two separate files (different mime types, same names). Downloading teh data fork only gets me a file that NeoOffice can read.
So the bug is that it chokes on Word files with a data fork. |
Ah. There's the problem. Neither NeoOffice nor OpenOffice.org expect Word documents to have a resource fork. AFAIK, recent Word document formats shouldn't have a resource fork so whichever program is creating the resource fork appears to be messing up the Word file in the process.
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Why does it care? Can't it just look at the data fork? |
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pluby
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| GregD42 wrote: | | Why does it care? Can't it just look at the data fork? |
That is not the issue at all. Both NeoOffice and OpenOffice only look at the data fork. That is the problem: whatever application is splitting your file into data and resource forks is doing it incorrectly. In your case, it appears that it is move data fork data into the resource fork and, as a result, corrupting the contents in the data fork. NeoOffice cannot guess at how another application missplit a file and reassemble. So, once corrupted, a file becomes unreadable.
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